Step 3: Finishing

Step 4: Extra Fun

I was thinking and remembered that the reason why the solution glows is because the Potassium ferricyanide excites the electrons or something and make...

I learned how to make glow sticks recently in my chemistry class. you just need a few "simple" chemicals, your probably going to have to buy these chemicals online, unless you can get/steal them from your chemistry class. Also, these amounts of the chemicals only make a small glowstick that doesnt last that long to make it last longer you're going to have to add more chemicals. so you need:

Step 1: Mixing it Together

Now, mix everything together EXCEPT for the catalyst (the Potassium ferricyanide)
Start with the 1.5 ml of Hydrogen Peroxide with the 40 ml of water, then mix in the .04g of Luminal, and one piece or flake of Sodium hydroxide about the same amount as the Luminal. now mix the solution really well so its all dissolved, remember don't add the Potassium ferricyanide ytet (the orange stuff)

Step 2: Adding the Catalyst

Now when your ready add the catalyst, the Potassium ferricyanide, once you add this your solution will start to glow, the more you add the longer it will glow, but remember to put the solution you mixed in the previous step in what every you wanted to put it in.

Step 3: Finishing

Now you have completed your glow stick, have fun!

Step 4: Extra Fun

I was thinking and remembered that the reason why the solution glows is because the Potassium ferricyanide excites the electrons or something and makes them glow, and so i had the idea to run an electric current through it and it started to glow a bit, THEN i had the idea to tazer it, looked alot better, you can kinda see in the picture the blue glowing wire, it did look alot better in real life. but just have fun with it, it also looks really cool in the toilet, or on your skin.

You -yes, you- can make sodium hydroxide at home in the privacy and convenience of your very own kitchen. Tired of the paperwork? Tired of the constant interviews with D.H.S. and F.B.I. field agents? Tired of waiting weeks for the UPS guy only to recieve a corporate notification that your shipment has been back-ordered and will arrive approximately 2 weeks after never? Well, then, it's your lucky day!!

DO: -ADD 1 CUP BAKING SODA TO POT AND SPREAD INTO EVEN LAYER. -ON RANGE, ROAST BAKING SODA OVER MEDIUM-HIGH HEAT. -AS BAKING SODA BEGINS TO BUBBLE, USE SPOON TO GENTLY STIR. **AVOID CREATING A DUST CLOUD OVER YOUR ROASTING POT. A DUST MASK WILL NOT PROTECT YOUR EYES** -WHEN CONTENTS OF POT SHOW NO FURTHER SIGNS OF GAS EVOLUTION, REMOVE FROM HEAT AND ALLOW TO COOL. -ONCE SIDE OF ROASTING POT IS HOT TO TOUCH BUT NOT HOT ENOUGH TO BURN, RETURN TO LOW HEAT -VERY SLOWLY ADD DISTILLED WATER TO ROASTING POT WHILE STIRRING GENTLY UNTIL SODIUM CARBONATE IS COMPLETELY DISSOLVED OR YOU RUN OUT OF WATER. -REMOVE FROM HEAT, COVER AND ALLOW TO COOL -INSERT FUNNEL IN MOUTH OF SEALABLE GLASS OR PLASTIC BOTTLE AND POUR OFF LIQUID. -SEAL BOTTLE

**WARNING: SODIUM HYDROXIDE WILL CAUSE SOME PLASTICS TO BECOME BRITTLE OVER TIME. ALWAYS WEAR GLOVES WHEN HANDLING AND KEEP AN EYEWASH BOTTLE FULL OF DILUTE VINEGAR HANDY.**

You are now the proud owner of an extremely useful piece of data and a bottle of sodium hydroxide with a concentration > or = 95%. Try not to get it in your eyes.

Doesn't sodium bicarbonate decompose into sodium carbonate, water, and CO2? Obviously, the CO2 and water will simply be given off as gasses.I have 2 questions then:Does the average kitchen stove even reach 500+ F, and how do you turn NaCO3 into NaOH?

Yessir, the average stove reaches way higher than 500 degrees! You can drop zinc match box cars in a pot and melt them on the stove. Or pennies. You can melt a whole pot of pennies (called pot metal). That is hot hot hot hot. You can feel the heat coming at you when you are near it.

There's absolutely no need to "make" your own sodium hydroxide....do a quick google search and you will find many resources for the chemical. Try this, i found it at Ace Hardware..... http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2845800&cp=2845052

Thanks so much but I do have one question. Can you use the dry NaOH just like the stuff you use to be able to buy? I have been making biodiesel for years and the meth heads have made my life more difficult.

I'm a little fuzzy on bio-diesel process but if your unit calls for dry-state NaOH, then absolutely you can. Just be certain that the gas evolution step is 100% complete and you'll be good to go. If it wants for a solution of a specific concentration, that's a little bit of a different animal but still completely do-able.

According to the label, there is sodium hydroxide in Crystal Drano. Whether or not that's what gives it that nice sparkle I can't say; according to Wikipedia the crystals are just common salt, but I only half-trust Wikipedia.

Anyway, given the other components of Crystal Drano, it probably wouldn't be suitable in this instance unless you could work out a process to remove the sodium nitrate, aluminium shavings and table salt...which actually sounds like a fun project in and of itself. Thanks for the idea!!!

when I was in the National Guard we cut a Chem Lite open and poured the liquid on an ---hole who was sleeping, then had him called to the commander's tent. Good laugh, but helped me know you can safely pour the fluid on children's Halloween costumes so they are easier to see from cars driving by.

Just because you could pour it on someone and not have instant pain and suffering doesn't mean its safe at all. I would not pour it on a kids costume you don't know how it might reacts to the materials the costume is made from. I'd worry most about some sort of fumes.

I once purchased, I think @ Hobby Lobby, some plastic test tubes with screw on lids that would be perfect for this. They are actually unexpanded pop bottles. They are made of polycarbonate which is extremely tough, at room temperature you probably couldn't break one with a hammer. As a plus, the lids seal really well. They have to for soda pop. Look for them where kid's scientific stuff is sold. There, your crisis is solved. By the way, my hat's off to the author. This is fascinating stuff.

I thought I should point out a small typo, which caused at least two errors in your instructions that could cause further confusion…

1) "Luminal" is the trade name for phenobarbital, which is also the chemical formula that you list. Luminol ( C8 H7 N3 O2 ) is the chemiluminescent stuff that people want to make glowsticks.

2) C12 H12 N2 O3 is phenobarbital, which is a sedative and not chemiluminescent… It's a schedule-IV drug, which might be why searching for places to buy 'Luminal" won't be fruitful (and I wouldn't necessarily trust that what you got in the mail was Luminal anyway).